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Ruthie Blum

Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host, with Amb. Mark Regev, of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including FOX, i24News, ILTV, WION and Scripps TV.

Everything wrong with the Trump-Harris debate

“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, Ep. 19

Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev

September 11, 2024

Gal Hirsch, the government's point man on missing and kidnapped citizens, attends the lobby for releasing the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Knesset, April 10, 2024. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90.

Restating the obvious: Hamas isn’t negotiating

“Unfortunately, many people repeat the narrative that in fact we are the ones preventing a deal,” said Gal Hirsch. “But this is a lie.”

September 10, 2024

Tal Gilboa. Photo: Courtesy.

‘If I didn’t believe Netanyahu, I wouldn’t stay in my job for another second’

Tal Gilboa, the prime minister’s animal-rights adviser whose nephew is a hostage in Gaza, has faith in Bibi’s fortitude and vow to return all the captives.

September 8, 2024

‘Remember who the real enemy is’

“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, Ep. 18

Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev

September 4, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meet at the White House on July 25, 2024. Credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Kamala’s push for Palestinian statehood

The news of another six murdered hostages, among them American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, makes the U.S. administration’s pressure on Israel for an end to the war all the more appalling.

September 1, 2024

A protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and for a deal to release Israelis held hostage in Gaza, near the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Aug. 10, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

The high cost to the hostages of ‘enlightened’ hypocrisy

Sound policy does and should drown out the Bibi-bashing for the sake of the men, women and children in the clutches of an actual monster.

August 29, 2024

What will it take to push Hezbollah back?

“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, Ep. 17

Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev

August 28, 2024

Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah Party-affiliated convicted murderer, in an Israeli courtroom, January 2012. Credit: Flash90.

The Israeli imperative to destroy myths, not just missiles

Most sane analysts understand that Hamas and Hezbollah are Iran-backed terrorist organizations whose military capabilities have to be countered. But illusions about the P.A. remain dangerously intact.

August 25, 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden acknowledges applause from the audience after his speech on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

From Charlottesville to Chicago

We’re not likely to hear more from Biden now that his fair-weather friends have put him out to pasture. But in case he’s schlepped out for a last hurrah, he’d do well to refrain from his go-to slander of Trump.

August 22, 2024